String dateBefore = gregorianDate();

        RemoteSnapshotMetadata metadata =
                new RemoteSnapshotMetadata(new DefaultArtifact("a:b:1-SNAPSHOT"), new Date(), null);
        metadata.merge(new Metadata());

        String dateAfter = gregorianDate();

        String ts = metadata.metadata.getVersioning().getSnapshot().getTimestamp();
        String datePart = DATE_FILTER.matcher(ts).replaceAll("");

import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.ArtifactRepositoryMetadata;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.Metadata;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.RepositoryMetadata;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.RepositoryMetadataManager;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.RepositoryMetadataResolutionException;

    }

    /**
     * Method write.
     *
     * @param writer   a writer object
     * @param metadata a Metadata object
     * @throws java.io.IOException java.io.IOException if any
     */
    public void write(Writer writer, Metadata metadata) throws java.io.IOException {
        try {
            delegate.write(writer, metadata.getDelegate());
        } catch (XMLStreamException e) {
            throw new IOException(e);
        }

import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.Metadata;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.Snapshot;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.SnapshotVersion;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.Versioning;
import org.eclipse.aether.artifact.Artifact;

/**
 * Maven local GAV level metadata.
 *
 * @deprecated since 4.0.0, use {@code maven-api-impl} jar instead

        super(createRepositoryMetadata(artifact), path, timestamp);
        this.artifact = artifact;
    }

    private static Metadata createRepositoryMetadata(Artifact artifact) {
        Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
        metadata.setGroupId(artifact.getGroupId());
        metadata.setArtifactId(artifact.getArtifactId());

        Versioning versioning = new Versioning();

	}

	if len(metadata) != len(buckets) || len(metadata) != len(objects) {
		return nil, Errorf("invalid metadata/object count: %d != %d != %d", len(metadata), len(buckets), len(objects))
	}
	keys := make([]ObjectKey, 0, len(metadata))
	for i := range metadata {
		key, err := s3.UnsealObjectKey(k, metadata[i], buckets[i], objects[i])
		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		keys = append(keys, key)
	}
	return keys, nil

            RequestTrace trace,
            Metadata metadata,
            ArtifactRepository repository,
            VersionRangeResult result) {
        Versioning versioning = null;
        try {
            if (metadata != null) {
                try (SyncContext syncContext = syncContextFactory.newInstance(session, true)) {
                    syncContext.acquire(null, Collections.singleton(metadata));

    /**
     * Merge a new metadata set into this piece of metadata.
     * TODO this should only be needed on the repository metadata {@link org.apache.maven.artifact.metadata.ArtifactMetadata}
     *
     * @param metadata the new metadata
     */
    void merge(ArtifactMetadata metadata);

    /**
     * Store the metadata in the local repository.

import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.Metadata;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.RepositoryMetadata;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.RepositoryMetadataResolutionException;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.Snapshot;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.SnapshotArtifactRepositoryMetadata;

 * under the License.
 */
package org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.io;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.Metadata;

/**
 * Handles deserialization of metadata from some kind of textual format like XML.
 *
 */
public interface MetadataReader {